Pristina

The opening of first chapters in Serbia's membership negotiations with the EU depends solely on the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

This is what Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday, asked when the expected opening of the first chapter in these talks.

Close relatives of those killed in the shootout in Kumanovo two weeks ago left for Skopje on Thursday with the head of the Kosovo Forensics Institute, Arsim Gerxhaliu, and a forensics team on a mission to recover the bodies.

"Five automobiles and the caskets have left for Skopje with the families and we will try to identify the bodies together," Gerxhaliu told BIRN.

Nikolic is turning Serbia 42 years backwards!

Nikolic wrote Kosovo platform for interior needs, and with it he is trying to maintain himself on Serbian political scene and get back to epicenter of political life, analysts are claiming.

Jadranka Joksimovic, Serbia's Minister for European Integration, said the government had started interviewing potential members of the Serbian negotiating team with the EU.

"We have a lot of names. Soon we will have suggestions for members," Joksimovic told the daily newspaper Danas on May 21.

Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo Director Marko Djuric said in Brussels Wednesday that the talks with a Pristina delegation went "in a positive spirit."

But he added that "press statements made by the other party were not helpful when it came to building mutual trust."

Several hundred people gathered in Pristina on Wednesday to protest against the way the Kosovo government has reacted to the crisis in Macedonia after the shootings in Kumanovo.

The protesters included family members of the Kosovars who were killed or arrested in the police raid on Kumanovo two weeks ago.

Marko Djuric says that "certain progress" has been made in the Belgrade-Pristina technical dialogue in Brussels when it comes to telecommunications issue.

Kindergartens, schools, and "suspicious student dorms" in Kosovo are financed by NGOs that have ties with Islamic extremists and terrorists.

This is what the Pristina-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore writes, quoting "a report of a foreign intelligence service."

The technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will continue in Brussels Tuesday, the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija has announced.

The talks will focus on issues of telecommunications, vehicle insurance and integrated administrative crossings management.

Kosovo's Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, said on Thursday that no meetings between Belgrade and Pristina on the prime ministerial level will be held until progress is made in the fulfilment of previous agreements.